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UNINA9910464900703321 |
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Balachandran G. |
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John Bullion's empire : Britains' gold problem and India between the wars / / G. Balachandran |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-315-02659-7 |
1-136-79057-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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London studies on South Asia ; ; 10 |
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Monetary policy - Great Britain |
Monetary policy - India |
Electronic books. |
Great Britain Economic policy 1918-1945 |
India Economic policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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First published in 1996 by Curzon Press. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; India and British 'Internationalism' Between the Wars; Interests, Ideas, and Economic Policy; Interests and Ideas in Indian Monetary Affairs; The Interwar India Office and the City of London; Plan of the Book; 2 The Rupee in a Changing World; The Indian Currency System; The Gold Exchange Standard; The Role of Gold; Gold for India: Changing British Perceptions; 3 Britain, U.S.A. and the 'Surpluses of the Orient': 1916-18; British External Finance in the War |
Britain, the U.S.A., and Indian Gold Imports during the WarIndian Trade in the War; The Convertibility Crisis; The Pittman Silver Agreement; Summary and Conclusion; 4 'Gold for the West and Silver for the East': Currency Policy in Postwar India; Indian Currency Dilemmas after the War; The Babbington-Smith Committee; The Triangular Context Revisited; Treasury Response to the Report; The Overflowing Sink; Summary and Conclusion; 5 Stabilizing the Floating Rupee: 1921-6; The External Environment; The Managed Float Regime in India; Currency Commission and Stabilization; Conclusion |
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6 Britain, U.S.A., and the Indian Gold Standard Controversy, 1925-7The Making of a Commission; The Gold Standard Controversy; The Politics of Silver, 1927-35; Gold-Bullion Standard - Myth and Reality; 7 The Depression Years; 'Gold Shortage' and the Sterling Crisis; The Depression and India's External Sector; The Policy Response and Constraints; Gold Exports and Sterling Policy; Gold Exports and the Indian Economy; A Gold Glut?; Conclusion; 8 The Politics of Monetary Autonomy and the Imperial Interest in Interwar India; The Early Impetus for Central Banking |
The Reserve Bank Controversy of 1927-8The Reserve Bank and Political Reform; 'Monetary Autonomy': A Summing Up; 9 Conclusion: India and the Crisis of British Finance; Bibliography; Index |
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Study of the impact of Britain's economic and financial crises on currency and monetary policy-making in India between the wars, analysing colonial policies during Anglo-US efforts to reconstruct the international financial system and Britain's struggle to restore the pre-eminence of sterling and the City. |
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UNINA9910783737203321 |
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Autore |
Coulby David |
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Beyond the national curriculum : curricular centralism and cultural diversity in Europe and the USA / / David Coulby |
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New York : , : Falmer Press, , 2000 |
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1-135-70001-X |
0-203-13219-X |
1-135-70002-8 |
1-280-33577-7 |
0-203-16974-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (145 p.) |
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Master classes in education series |
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Education - Curricula - Social aspects - Europe |
Education - Curricula - Social aspects - United States |
Education and state - Europe |
Education and state - United States |
Multicultural education - Europe |
Multicultural education - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introductory Remarks; Introduction: Transitions in Europe and the Central Role of Knowledge; The State Control of Knowledge; Cultural Diversity and State Knowledge; The Creation and Re-Creation of Tradition in Schools and Universities; The Knowledge Economy; Modernist Knowledge and Prejudice: Special Educational Needs; Knowledge and Warfare; State Knowledge and Identity; References; Index |
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The National Curriculum is due for review. This is a central area of educational debate in England and Wales. Increasingly politicians and their entourages are looking for quick fixes from abroad to solve what they see to be problems in the educational system of the UK. Drawing on insights from other European curricular systems, this provocative book will contribute, in a timely way, to the debate on reformations of the National Curriculum. The style is concise, with points for discussion and lists of further reading. debate in England and Wales. Increasingly politicians are looking for quick |
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